Re: Subcribing to this list, what's the secret?

I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which
is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and
gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address
you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either
yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my
main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG
lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is
some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using
that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but
a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives
that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my
responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow
listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't
respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't.

I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form
to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied
(though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the
mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what
the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's
in order?

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> I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which
> is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and
> gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address
> you entered does not appear to be valid."

Sorry, there was a recent DNS problem that was causing some false
negatives when verifying email addresses. Please try it again, or
simply mail me the addresses you wish to have subscribed, and
whether you would like them set as "nomail" or not, and I'll take care
of it. The same offer to anyone else having recent subscription problems.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
End Point Corporation
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If you have a dot in your gmail username, take it out. Gmail ignores
it and validation scripts often puke on it.

Then use that email as your reply to, not some nonexistent carp.

- Ian

On 12/13/06, wheel <wheel(at)wheel(dot)not> wrote:
> I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which
> is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and
> gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address
> you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either
> yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my
> main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG
> lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is
> some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using
> that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but
> a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives
> that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my
> responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow
> listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't
> respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't.
>
> I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form
> to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied
> (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the
> mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what
> the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's
> in order?
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/
>

wheel wrote:
> I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which
> is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and
> gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address
> you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either
> yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my
> main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG
> lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is
> some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using
> that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but
> a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives
> that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my
> responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow
> listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't
> respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't.
>
> I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form
> to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied
> (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the
> mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what
> the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's
> in order?

I did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing
something wrong. Going to:

http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe

and entering my gmail address worked, and I tried a username that
contained a period, and that worked too.

Interestingly, I can't find your previous email that I saw in our
archives, or in google archives. What email address where you trying?

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> > I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form
> > to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied
> > (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the
> > mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what
> > the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's
> > in order?
>

I also have not been able to duplicate the problem from multiple yahoo
and gmail tests. I did however note that postgresql.org will not let you
subscribe as wheel(at)wheel(dot)not . Is .not even a valid suffix?

Joshua D. Drake

> I did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing
> something wrong. Going to:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe
>
> and entering my gmail address worked, and I tried a username that
> contained a period, and that worked too.
>
> Interestingly, I can't find your previous email that I saw in our
> archives, or in google archives. What email address where you trying?
>
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> wheel wrote:
>> I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which
>> is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and
>> gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address
>> you entered does not appear to be valid."

> I did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing
> something wrong.

Per this morning's discussion, there was a DNS misconfiguration that
prevented the webserver from resolving email addresses. It's claimed
to be corrected now.

regards, tom lane

> I also have not been able to duplicate the problem from multiple yahoo
> and gmail tests. I did however note that postgresql.org will not let you
> subscribe as wheel(at)wheel(dot)not . Is .not even a valid suffix?

I wasn't able to create an account for pg_docs mailing list the other day. I figured that
everyone was tired of me reporting what I incorrectly thought were bugs in the documentation. ;-)

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

In article <1166121173(dot)18226(dot)5(dot)camel(at)localhost(dot)localdomain>,
jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:

>
> I also have not been able to duplicate the problem from multiple yahoo
> and gmail tests. I did however note that postgresql.org will not let you
> subscribe as wheel(at)wheel(dot)not . Is .not even a valid suffix?
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>

I had a similar problem as the OP when I tried to subscribe to the docs
mailing list. And the email I used was the same as the one I used to
subscribe to this list.

I put in the email, checked not to receive email nor digest (as I use
NNTP) and it wouldn't take the email. Again, it was the same email Iuse
for the other pgSQL lists.

-arturo